I knew you'd come! I'm so pleased to have you! I’m Bri. You can find me in the kitchen. And if not there, at my writing table, which is also in my kitchen. So…!! I love cooking with my beau, conversations that fill the heart to brimming, smiling and pink lipstick. I have bangs for days and that’s the way I like it.

Neither do I. UNLESS it comes before the words “ground chicken burgers.”

You know what I am talking about. Ground chicken burgers or turkey burgers tend to by synonymous with dry. That’s not cool. In fact, that is uncool.

Last week I posted about paleo sweet potato fries. Oh yes I did. But how can we be eating just fries for dinner? Don’t answer that.

Let’s move on.

It is a good idea to have something else to eat with these fries. Say a burger? Say a MOIST chicken burger? Yes.

Dang. Y’all are so supportive, at least in my mind. I love it.

I have made my share of chicken and turkey burgers. And every recipe I have tried has been on the dry side. That’s a problem. When you are eating paleo and you cannot have a bun or gooey cheese or even super syrupy BBQ sauce (or really most store bought sauces), a dry chicken burger cannot be masked. It’s enough to make you mad. Like. Really. Mad.

So for me, I knew I needed to inject flavor into the chicken burger.

And that’s what I did. I did a lot of research on the web and found bits and pieces of ideas for several recipes. And I combined everything I liked, along with some of my own ideas, into ONE recipe. Yes I did. It should have been a train wreck. But it wasn’t. It was magical.

It. Was. MOIST.

Let’s do this.

Flavorful Ground Chicken Burgers

Take 1 pound of ground chicken or turkey and put it in a medium sized bowl. Add 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill, 3 chives chopped, 1 teaspoon dried Italian herbs, 1 teaspoon garlic powder (or 2 cloves of fresh minced garlic), juice of one lemon, 1/2 tsp paprika (or chili powder, if you’re looking for some spice), and 1/8 teaspoon salt. It will look like a party in that bowl:

Mix it all together with your hands.

You are going to find that it is very juicy. And you will think, “How are these going to stay together?” You might even take a minute to curse me and think about tweeting me in your rage and frustration. But just hold on. Well actually, you can always tweet us. We are at @OurSavoryLife. Oh yes I did. Shout out!

Anyway, mold your patties. You should get four patties. Go ahead and set them on wax paper as you mold them to let some of the juices stay contained. If you set them on a paper towel the paper towel will STEAL all the juices from your burger. We cannot let this happen. Protect your patties. I repeat, protect. your. patties.

Heat a fry pan on medium heat and add some coconut oil (or other oil of choice) to your pan. Once your pan is well heated, add as many patties as you can without crowding your pan. Fry them for 6 minutes and then flip them. Fry them on the other side for 4-5 minutes.

And you’re done.

Add some deliciousness. I am talking about tomatoes, avocado, red onion, homemade salsa, homemade paleo mayonnaise. If you are not doing paleo add to your hearts delight. If you are paleo, you know exactly what you can and cannot add. You know what I’m talking about.

Charissa -Wow! Great recipes, Bri! I already made two you posted. Thanks for sharing.

Also, the knife sharpening post is helpful- mine just went dull and I didn’t know how to tackle that.ReplyCancel

belleandbeau -Thank you so much, Charissa! Grateful for your kind words and for you. Such a treasure!ReplyCancel

AJ Burch-Well hello! I was introduced to this lovely website by Mr. McKoy (AKA my boss :-) ) and I think this recipe is awesome! I do, however, have a suggestion for you: in my past life I made some ground chicken burgers. What I did was put some chicken breast, olive oil, and ZUCCHINI (yes, zucchini…sooooo delicious ’round these parts) and some seasonings in a food processor. Churned it up real nice like and kind of sauteed it in some coconut oil. It was definitely the opposite of dry ;-). Anyway, I’m so excited to check out the rest of these salivatory recipes.

Bri McKoy-Hey AJ! So fun to see you around these parts :) I love your suggestion! I am going to give that a little go next time. Thanks much!ReplyCancel

Danielle -These were delicious and super quick to make. Love that they didn’t have any breadcrumbs. I didn’t have some of the ingredients on hand so I substituted a little under a Tbs of ACV for the lemon and a couple dashes of onion powder for the chives. I also used garlic salt instead of the fresh garlic and salt (I used about 1 tsp – the patties definitely needed more salt than 1/4 of a tsp, IMO). Super yummy and so quick! The dill flavor was really pronounced though. I may use 1/2 Tbs next time. Thanks for the recipe!

Heather Scharfenberg -Any suggestions on grilling these chicken burgers on a grill?ReplyCancel

Bri McKoy-Hi Heather~ I have not tried to grill them. They are pretty wet when you form the patties (due to the lemon juice). If you try it, please let me know!ReplyCancel

Bri McKoy-Hi Heather! One of the followers of this blog did try grilling it. He gave me the results through twitter. (Thanks to @culebra16 for testing this out!) He said he grilled the burgers for three minutes on each side over hot coals that were about 375 degrees. Then 1-2 minutes on each side to finish them off. Hope that helps!ReplyCancel

Angie-Getting all my camping food ready and this is a great alternative. :)

Linda -going to try these tonite & add a little shredded zucchini I’ll let you know later thnx for postReplyCancel

K&J Muniz -Hello,
We found your recipe with a google search and made these burgers the same night. SO delicious all by themselves, but we did have them on spelt bread. :) We used dried herbs and squeezed orange juice as that is what we had on hand. We will definitely be making these again! These burgers were much better than our typical turkey burger. We look forward to trying more recipes from your site. Thank you for sharing!

Bri McKoy-Good to hear that they are as delicious with orange juice and dried herbs! Thanks for letting us know!ReplyCancel

Betsy -I made these burgers tonight because I wanted a chicken burger without bread crumbs and eggs. I was so pleased with the results, they were delicious! I also added about 4 minced sun dried tomatoes. Your recipe for sweet potato fries was also a big hit with my husband and went well with the burgers. Thank you for these great recipes. I will be trying many of your other recipes too.